Staff Engineer, Domain Technical Lead (Conversational AI for Banking)
ScrumAID
San Francisco, CA · Posted November 1, 2026
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About the job
A profitable, well-established AI company serving banks and credit unions is hiring a senior engineer who still writes code every day. The person in this seat takes ownership of an entire technical area, working shoulder to shoulder with a small pod while helping guide neighboring engineers.
What you’ll own
The design and implementation of systems across one major domain, leading by example in the codebase
Quality and delivery speed for the pods in that domain through reviews, shipping and hands-on standards
Support for engineers and team leads, clearing obstacles and raising their technical ability without drifting into people management
Results for the domain, agreed jointly with a product counterpart who is treated as an equal
A way of building that leans on frontier language models and AI coding assistants for the whole group
Who thrives here
Six to fourteen years as a staff or principal-level software engineer
Time at a startup during its growth phase, ideally between Series A and C, where you built something that lasted
Production experience with LLM-based agents, preferably conversational or voice products, going beyond a recent side project
Proven end-to-end ownership of a critical system built from zero
Strong fundamentals, ideally in Node.js, React and Python
Daily, deep use of modern AI tooling and a preference for staying technical over moving into management
Full-time and on-site in the San Francisco Bay Area, five days a week. Visa transfers are considered.